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The Namibian
Tue 13 Aug 2013
SMS Of The Day * MINISTRY of Gender and Child Welfare, TEARS are rolling down as I write this SMS. The killing of women in Namibia is now like reciting a poem. Are we really getting the protection we deserve while women not being treated as part of this c Food For Thought * SO the Zimbabwe elections were free and peaceful and not free and fair? Bouquets And Brickbats * NURSES at Katutura Hospital must stop wearing those big plastic sandals at work because they are not the official working shoes. We want to see you looking smart and beautiful with your full uniform. SMS Of The Day * THIS nation is in dire need of a massive conference on housing. When we experienced a crisis in the education sector a crisis-control brain-storming conference was organised which resulted in the best deal ever for the Namibian child, nam Food For Thought * BOURGEOISIE has become a daily occupation if not the order of the day of the upper-echelons, President Hifikepunye Pohamba we urge you to revisit this unpatriotic geocentricism among your staff and the well-connected, for everybody to r Bouquets And Brickbats * COMMISSIONER of Prisons, can you please explain the strategies you use to appoint officers to certain positions? It is my observation that you are being fed with wrong information then you just promote individuals without making p SMS Of The Day * I THINK Paulus ‘The Rock’ Ambunda lost his belt because of this promoter and trainer. How can a world champion still be training at the Katutura Youth Complex where there is not enough equipment. I think they must follow the example of Ha Food For Thought * NAMIBIA Dairies are unable to match low prices of imported milk and this ultimately means the consumer will have to pay more for local milk. Look at the prices of the local chicken. All these profits are going in the pockets of a few in Bouquets And Brickbats * I AM pleased to hear that Cabinet has responded positively to the proposal of Namibia Dairies to support the industry. The restrictions which support the industry by reducing competition to ensure the survival of the industry is a SMS Of The Day * CEO’s golden handshakes. Somewhere on our statute books there must be a provision that if a board of directors suspends/dismisses a CEO without due regard to legal provision (substantive/procedural law) such board must carry the costs for Food For Thought * JACKY Asheeke was so right with her last column- why are the fathers of the dead children not being prosecuted? (Reference to the children who died in shack fires last week) Our justice system still protects men over women. In this cont Bouquets And Brickbats * ALEXACTUS Kaure, your column in Friday’s newspaper opened my eyes. One hardly finds impartial case study analysers in Namibia. Let’s not destroy the Polytechnic’s strong foundation (Tjivikua) as yet. At least wait until the transf
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| 2013-07-26
Forge New Camaraderie
AFTER an absence of 34 years, I returned to Namibia this winter. I have been travelling within the country here and there, north, central and south renewing old friendships and acquiring new ones.
I have been told that the spirit of solidarity, community and camaraderie is not what it used to be before independence 23 years ago. The let-down is palpable.
I understand the new nation is faced with many challenges: deep poverty, relatively high unemployment, weaknesses in the educational system, (in some sectors) lack of skilled labour, an impending electrical power crunch, domestic or gender-based violence, (in some areas) an insecure water delivery infrastructure, inadequate supply of affordable housing, elitism, corruption, even (very sadly) starvation and (most sadly) infanticide.
Such ills are not conducive to human dignity, which was one of the goals of the liberation struggle and must forever continue to be the aspiration of a religiously-minded people.
Are the above-enumerated ills not the new enemy? If so, aluta continua. Before independence the spirit of solidarity helped defeat colonialism and apartheid. Namibians can meet this new enemy with their brain power and – just as they did so many years ago – with sisterly and brotherly power too so that all, in solidarity, may feel fully the fruits of freedom.
Timothy Guile
By email
I have been told that the spirit of solidarity, community and camaraderie is not what it used to be before independence 23 years ago. The let-down is palpable.
I understand the new nation is faced with many challenges: deep poverty, relatively high unemployment, weaknesses in the educational system, (in some sectors) lack of skilled labour, an impending electrical power crunch, domestic or gender-based violence, (in some areas) an insecure water delivery infrastructure, inadequate supply of affordable housing, elitism, corruption, even (very sadly) starvation and (most sadly) infanticide.
Such ills are not conducive to human dignity, which was one of the goals of the liberation struggle and must forever continue to be the aspiration of a religiously-minded people.
Are the above-enumerated ills not the new enemy? If so, aluta continua. Before independence the spirit of solidarity helped defeat colonialism and apartheid. Namibians can meet this new enemy with their brain power and – just as they did so many years ago – with sisterly and brotherly power too so that all, in solidarity, may feel fully the fruits of freedom.
Timothy Guile
By email
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